In the District

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Dan Goldman is calling for $15 million in funding for the African Burial Ground National Monument to be included in the Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. The funding would support the planning, design, and construction of the African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center as an expansion of the existing monument. The African Burial Ground houses 15,000 intact skeletal remains of enslaved and free Africans who lived and worked in colonial New York, as well as nearly 8,000 personal handwritten messages. Despite the site's astounding archaeological significance, it currently lacks a museum and educational center to properly contextualize its findings.

New York, N.Y. - Today, U.S. Representative Dan Goldman (NY-10) presented a $250,000 Community Project Funding Award to Avenues for Justice (AFJ), an alternative-to-incarceration program that aims to help keep young people out of the criminal justice system.

Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Representative Dan Goldman (NY-10) is reiterating his demand that the Trump Administration provide answers about its decision to pause leases for five large scale offshore wind projects currently under construction, including the Empire Wind 1 project in New York. The administration cited national security concerns as the rationale for the pause; in December, Rep. Goldman demanded a classified hearing detailing these concerns by the week of January 5th. As of today, neither the Department of Interior (DOI) nor the Department of Defense (DOD) has scheduled a briefing or provided access to the classified materials. While a judge today granted a preliminary injunction that allows construction on the project to continue, the threat to the project still remains. The Trump administration has made clear it will use any means necessary, including citing national security risks, to prevent offshore wind projects like Empire Wind 1 from being completed.

“Department of Homeland Security spokesperson ‘Tricia from Ohio,’ is back to doing what she does best: gaslighting the American people. Her statement that the staffer ‘had no legal right to be in the United States’ is a bald-faced lie. In truth, the NYC Council employee was lawfully in the United States and properly authorized to work here.

“After a City Council staffer was detained by ICE yesterday while attending a routine immigration check-in, our offices immediately moved to coordinate with advocates at the New York Immigration Coalition and the outstanding lawyers at the New York Legal Assistance Group who filed an emergency habeas petition last night.

Washington, DC - U.S. Representatives Dan Goldman (D-NY-10), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY-13), Nydia Velázquez (D-NY-7), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14), Grace Meng (D-NY-6), Yvette Clarke (D-NY-9), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-12), Gregory Meeks (D-NY-5), and Paul Tonko (D-NY-20) sent a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul, New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, calling on the New York State Legislature to pass a group of immigration bills that will protect our immigrant neighbors, uphold constitutional rights, and reinforce New York State’s role as a check against unlawful federal overreach by the Trump Administration.

NEW YORK, NY - Today U.S. Representative Dan Goldman (NY-10) visited the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities at 26 Federal Plaza to conduct his congressional oversight duties. He released a new video detailing his visit.

New York, NY - Today, U.S. Representative Dan Goldman (NY-10) sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth criticizing the recent decision to pause all offshore wind leases and demanding a classified briefing with the appropriate officials on the national security concerns cited as the rationale for the pause. One of the affected offshore wind projects, Empire Wind 1, is located partially in New York’s 10th Congressional District and will be adversely impacted by the decision.